To fall from a higher to a lower place or position: The plate dropped onto the floor.

To become less, as in number, intensity, or volume: The temperature dropped below 0.

To move or descend from one height or level to another: He dropped into a crouch. The sun dropped below the horizon.

To fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death.

To pass or slip into a specified state or condition: dropped into a doze; drop out of sight.

Sports To fall or roll into a basket or hole. Used of a ball.

verb

, transitive

To let fall by releasing hold of: I dropped the towel onto the floor.

To let fall in drops: drop the medicine into the ear.

To cause to become less; reduce: drop the rate of production.

To cause to fall, as by hitting or shooting: dropped him with a left hook.

Sports To hurl or strike (a ball) into a basket or hole.

To give birth to. Used of animals.

To say or offer casually: drop a hint; drop a name.

To write at one's leisure: drop me a note.

To cease consideration or treatment of: dropped the matter altogether.

To terminate an association or a relationship with: an actor who was dropped by the talent agency.

To leave unfinished: drop everything and help.

To leave out (a letter, for example) in speaking or writing.

To leave or set down at a particular place; unload: I dropped the book in your office.

Informal To spend, especially lavishly or rashly: “dropping $50,000 in an Atlantic City casino”(George F. Will).

To airdrop (supplies, for example).

To lower the level of (the voice).

To lose (a game or contest, for example).

Slang To take, as a drug, by mouth: drop acid.

Phrasal Verbs: drop backFootball To back away from the line of scrimmage. drop behind To fall behind: dropped behind the rest of the class during her illness.drop by To stop in for a short visit. drop off To fall asleep. To decrease: Sales dropped off in the fourth quarter.drop out To withdraw from participation, as in a game, club, or school. To withdraw from established society, especially because of disillusion with conventional values. drop over To stop in for a short visit.

Origin of drop

Middle English droppe, from Old English dropa; see dhreu- in Indo-European roots.

drop

Noun

(plural drops)

A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that falls from a source of liquid.

Put three drops of oil into the mixture.

The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.

A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's deck; a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet; a curtain which falls in front of a theatricalstage; etc.

A drop press or drop hammer.

(engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.

(nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.

drop - Computer Definition

The portion of a local loop that extends from a distribution cable terminal to a customer's building. A drop, or drop wire, generally is in the form of a cable containing one to five twisted pairs, or perhaps one or two optical fibers. The term refers to the fact that the small cable often drops from a larger aerial cable suspended above the ground from poles. See also cable and local loop.

The portion of an inside wire and cable system that drops from a false ceiling, also known as drop ceiling, perhaps connecting to a pre-wired cubicle or electrical pole, rather than directly to an electrically powered device.